Elsa Zylberstein with Anne-Katrin Titze on Simone Veil: “She was really someone fighting for people’s dignity. I didn’t know it was that strong. My models were Meryl Streep, obviously, or Gary Oldman as Churchill (in Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour). So I didn’t want to play her, I wanted to become her.”
Olivier Dahan’s all-embracing portrait, Simone: Woman Of The Century, stars Elsa Zylberstein as Simone Veil from 1968 till 2006, and Rebecca Marder (Arnaud Desplechin’s Tromperie and François Ozon’s Mon Crime) from 1942 through 1967.
Auschwitz survivor, Health Minister of France (she put an end to the criminalization of abortion), magistrate, mother, member of the Constitutional Council, advocate for the rights of women and prison reform, and the first President of the European Parliament, Simone Veil’s importance for the 20th and 21st century cannot be overstated. Dahan (La Vie En Rose with Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf...
Olivier Dahan’s all-embracing portrait, Simone: Woman Of The Century, stars Elsa Zylberstein as Simone Veil from 1968 till 2006, and Rebecca Marder (Arnaud Desplechin’s Tromperie and François Ozon’s Mon Crime) from 1942 through 1967.
Auschwitz survivor, Health Minister of France (she put an end to the criminalization of abortion), magistrate, mother, member of the Constitutional Council, advocate for the rights of women and prison reform, and the first President of the European Parliament, Simone Veil’s importance for the 20th and 21st century cannot be overstated. Dahan (La Vie En Rose with Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf...
- 8/16/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Elsa Zylberstein, one of the most famous – and bankable — faces of French cinema, known for her Cesar-winning performance in “I’ve Loved You For So Long,” is preparing to emerge as a major film producer.
Having recently set up banners in France and the U.S., Zylberstein is actively developing a raft of films and series, working with the likes of Oscar-winning Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad (“The Cave”), Ted Braun (Darfur Now”) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton (“The Father”), among others. These include “Kingdom of Hope,” a movie about Elise Boghossian, a French acupuncturist and humanitarian worker in a war zone who has healed children victims of Isis . The movie will be directed by Fayyad, who is based in Berlin, and is being penned by Braun, based on Boghossian’s autobiographical book “Au royaume de l’espoir, il n’y a pas d’hiver.”
Zylberstein, who stands out from the...
Having recently set up banners in France and the U.S., Zylberstein is actively developing a raft of films and series, working with the likes of Oscar-winning Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad (“The Cave”), Ted Braun (Darfur Now”) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton (“The Father”), among others. These include “Kingdom of Hope,” a movie about Elise Boghossian, a French acupuncturist and humanitarian worker in a war zone who has healed children victims of Isis . The movie will be directed by Fayyad, who is based in Berlin, and is being penned by Braun, based on Boghossian’s autobiographical book “Au royaume de l’espoir, il n’y a pas d’hiver.”
Zylberstein, who stands out from the...
- 2/20/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Olivier Dahan’s “Simone, A Woman of the Century” completes the trilogy he began with the Edith Piaf biopic “La Vie en Rose,” starring Marion Cotillard, and “Grace of Monaco,” starring Nicole Kidman. Dahan spoke with Variety during the Unifrance Rendezvous in Paris, where the film had its market premiere.
“Simone,” starring Elsa Zylberstein (“Un plus une”) and Rebecca Marder (“Deception”), cuts back and forth across time, as it explores the life of French politician and former President of the European Parliament, Simone Veil (1927-2017), who played a key role in passing abortion legislation in France, protecting rights of prisoners, immigrants, AIDS victims and prostitutes, and preventing torture by French forces during the Algerian war of independence.
Born into a French-Jewish family, Veil’s world view was decisively shaped by the Nazi occupation of France, when much of her family was rounded up by French police and sent to concentration camps,...
“Simone,” starring Elsa Zylberstein (“Un plus une”) and Rebecca Marder (“Deception”), cuts back and forth across time, as it explores the life of French politician and former President of the European Parliament, Simone Veil (1927-2017), who played a key role in passing abortion legislation in France, protecting rights of prisoners, immigrants, AIDS victims and prostitutes, and preventing torture by French forces during the Algerian war of independence.
Born into a French-Jewish family, Veil’s world view was decisively shaped by the Nazi occupation of France, when much of her family was rounded up by French police and sent to concentration camps,...
- 1/16/2022
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Official Selection section will showcase 20 films this year.
UK director Andrea Arnold has been announced as president of the Un Certain Regard jury at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival which is due to unfold July 6-17.
The other jury members will comprise French-Algerian director, screenwriter and producer Mounia Meddour, French actress Elsa Zylberstein, Argentinian director, producer and screenwriter Daniel Burman and US writer/director, producer and actor Michael Covino.
Arnold will also be attending the festival with her documentary Cow which is due to show in the new Cannes Première section.
She has a long relationship with the festival.
UK director Andrea Arnold has been announced as president of the Un Certain Regard jury at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival which is due to unfold July 6-17.
The other jury members will comprise French-Algerian director, screenwriter and producer Mounia Meddour, French actress Elsa Zylberstein, Argentinian director, producer and screenwriter Daniel Burman and US writer/director, producer and actor Michael Covino.
Arnold will also be attending the festival with her documentary Cow which is due to show in the new Cannes Première section.
She has a long relationship with the festival.
- 6/14/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Watch: Charlie Kaufman Explains Why Making Movies 'Sucks' (Tiff Talk) Legendary French filmmaker Claude Lelouch has had a career that's spanned more than five decades and that has earned him the Palme d'Or at Cannes and two Academy Awards. Currently 77 years old and turning out new movies mostly every other year, Lelouch descended on the Toronto International Film Festival with his latest romance, "Un Plus Une," starring Oscar winner Jean Dujardin opposite Elsa Zylberstein and Christopher Lambert. Dujardin stars as Antoine, a charming and successful Parisian film composer who jets off to India to work on a Bollywood adaption of "Romeo & Juliet." On his first night there, he attends a dinner in his honor hosted by the French ambassador (Christophe Lambert). Although he attend these kinds of tedious affairs all the time, Antoine ends up seated beside the ambassador's wife, Anna (Elsa Zylberstein), whose curious personality catches his.
- 9/21/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Oscar-winning actor to return for comedy sequel.
Jean Dujardin has returned to the beaches of the South of France for a reprise of one his most popular French-language characters, the hapless surfer Brice.
Brice 3, a sequel to the 2005 comedy hit The Brice Man (Brice de Nice), kicked off a 10-week shoot in Nice on Sept 14, which will also set down in Bordeaux, Paris and Thailand.
The production reunites Dujardin with James Huth, who directed the original film, as well as his old co-stars Clovis Cornillac and Bruno Salomon in the roles of fellow wannabe surfers Marius de Fréjus and Igor d’Hossegor.
Dujardin, who originally developed the big screen character of Brice from one of his comedy sketches, co-wrote the screenplay with Huth. French comedian and writer Christopher Duthuron also collaborated on the adaptation and dialogue.
The actor - who won an Oscar, Golden Globe and Bafta for The Artist in 2012 - is currently garnering critical acclaim...
Jean Dujardin has returned to the beaches of the South of France for a reprise of one his most popular French-language characters, the hapless surfer Brice.
Brice 3, a sequel to the 2005 comedy hit The Brice Man (Brice de Nice), kicked off a 10-week shoot in Nice on Sept 14, which will also set down in Bordeaux, Paris and Thailand.
The production reunites Dujardin with James Huth, who directed the original film, as well as his old co-stars Clovis Cornillac and Bruno Salomon in the roles of fellow wannabe surfers Marius de Fréjus and Igor d’Hossegor.
Dujardin, who originally developed the big screen character of Brice from one of his comedy sketches, co-wrote the screenplay with Huth. French comedian and writer Christopher Duthuron also collaborated on the adaptation and dialogue.
The actor - who won an Oscar, Golden Globe and Bafta for The Artist in 2012 - is currently garnering critical acclaim...
- 9/16/2015
- ScreenDaily
Jean Dujardin has worked steadily since he won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2012 for his role in “The Artist,” but few of his subsequent parts have been as memorable as his new one, in Claude Lelouch’s lyrical “Un Plus Une.” The film had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. As a film composer whose playboy ways take a hit when he finds himself drawn to the wife of a French diplomat in India, Dujardin brings abundant charm but also depths of sadness to Lelouch’s moving romantic comedy. He answered TheWrap’s questions through a translator.
- 9/16/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Exclusive: String of deals on Claude Lelouch feature following Tiff world premiere.
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment has inked a string of deals on Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch’s romance, Un Plus Une, following the film’s world premiere in Toronto on Friday (Sept 11).
Deals have closed in Israel (United King), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Baltics (Acme), Turkey (Aqua Group), Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia (Blitz), Greece (Odeon) and Middle East (Jaguar).
Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) stars alongside Elsa Zyblerstein and Christophe Lambert in the story of a successful composer who falls in love when he travels to India to work on a retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Cast and Metropolitan Films producers Samuel and Victor Hadida were in Toronto for the film’s debut screening.
Un Plus Une will release in France on December 9.
Mister Smith’s David Garrett said: “We are honoured to be presenting the latest work from such an iconic filmmaker with such...
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment has inked a string of deals on Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch’s romance, Un Plus Une, following the film’s world premiere in Toronto on Friday (Sept 11).
Deals have closed in Israel (United King), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Baltics (Acme), Turkey (Aqua Group), Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia (Blitz), Greece (Odeon) and Middle East (Jaguar).
Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) stars alongside Elsa Zyblerstein and Christophe Lambert in the story of a successful composer who falls in love when he travels to India to work on a retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Cast and Metropolitan Films producers Samuel and Victor Hadida were in Toronto for the film’s debut screening.
Un Plus Une will release in France on December 9.
Mister Smith’s David Garrett said: “We are honoured to be presenting the latest work from such an iconic filmmaker with such...
- 9/13/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Passage Over India: Lelouch’s Romantic Dramedy an Overstuffed Pilgrimage
French auteur Claude Lelouch, now well into his seventies, maintains a prolific career, striding through a sixth decade of filmmaking. However, the director, who scored his greatest successes following the inception of the New Wave with 1966’s A Man and a Woman, a simplistic love story which took home the Palme d’Or and the Foreign Language Oscar, continues a dismaying practice of busybodied narratives gone haywire with his latest effort, Un plus Une (the masculine and feminine form of ‘a’). While his masterpiece is widely regarded as the 1981 musical epic Les uns et les autres (known in the Us as Bolero), a decades spanning, multicultural wonder, it also represents a tidemark of ambitious narrative scope often repeated since but with little success (including an inhibited 1986 sequel to A Man and a Woman). Starring two notable French stars, both overall...
French auteur Claude Lelouch, now well into his seventies, maintains a prolific career, striding through a sixth decade of filmmaking. However, the director, who scored his greatest successes following the inception of the New Wave with 1966’s A Man and a Woman, a simplistic love story which took home the Palme d’Or and the Foreign Language Oscar, continues a dismaying practice of busybodied narratives gone haywire with his latest effort, Un plus Une (the masculine and feminine form of ‘a’). While his masterpiece is widely regarded as the 1981 musical epic Les uns et les autres (known in the Us as Bolero), a decades spanning, multicultural wonder, it also represents a tidemark of ambitious narrative scope often repeated since but with little success (including an inhibited 1986 sequel to A Man and a Woman). Starring two notable French stars, both overall...
- 9/12/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Here’s a clip from Oscar-winning French director Claude Lelouch’s Un Plus Une, the romantic drama that has its world premiere tonight in the Special Presentation section at the Toronto Film Festival. Fellow Oscar winner Jean Dujardin (for The Artist) speaks in this one, playing a successful film composer who falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo And Juliet. Elsa Zylberstein plays his love interest, and Christopher…...
- 9/11/2015
- Deadline
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Tiff Bible: All the Reviews, Interviews and News Posted During The Festival Over four days, registered Toronto International Film Festival delegates can hear talent from this year's biggest films talk about their movies with the staff of Indiewire. Guests include talent behind some of the year's most acclaimed films, such as Cannes sensation "Son of Saul," and some of the Tiff's most anticipated premieres, like Michael Moore's "Where to Invade Next." All of Indiewire's 2015 Tiff Talks will take place at Glenn Gould Studio at 250 Front St W. The schedule is as follows. Be sure to show up early to claim a seat! Saturday, September 123:15pm - 3:45pm: "Son of Saul," featuring director Lazlo Nemes. Moderated by Eric Kohn.3:45pm - 4:15pm: "Un Plus Une," featuring director Claude Lelouch and stars Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein and Christopher Lambert. Moderated by Dana Harris.
- 9/11/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Tiff 40 to open with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal.Scroll down for Galas, Special Presentation line-ups
The 40th anniversary edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) will feature first looks for Jay Roach’s blacklisted screenwriter biopic Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston as well as Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong drama with Ben Foster.
Joining The Program on the roster of world premiere Gala screenings are Ridley Scott’s sci-fi adventure The Martian, Deepa Mehta’s gangster tale Beeba Boys and Kate Winslet Australian drama The Dressmaker.
Click here for Tiff film trailers
Following much speculation, the festival will open with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Hyena Road, the anticipated Afghan War film, will also receive a world premiere. Director Paul Gross’ Passchendaele opened Toronto in 2008.
Among others there are first public screenings for Julie Delpy’s Lolo as well as two gay rights dramas in the form of Peter Sollett’s [link...
The 40th anniversary edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) will feature first looks for Jay Roach’s blacklisted screenwriter biopic Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston as well as Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong drama with Ben Foster.
Joining The Program on the roster of world premiere Gala screenings are Ridley Scott’s sci-fi adventure The Martian, Deepa Mehta’s gangster tale Beeba Boys and Kate Winslet Australian drama The Dressmaker.
Click here for Tiff film trailers
Following much speculation, the festival will open with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Hyena Road, the anticipated Afghan War film, will also receive a world premiere. Director Paul Gross’ Passchendaele opened Toronto in 2008.
Among others there are first public screenings for Julie Delpy’s Lolo as well as two gay rights dramas in the form of Peter Sollett’s [link...
- 7/28/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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